James Gilmore to Newsmax: Dropping Ceasefire Gives Putin Advantage

Former U.S. Ambassador James Gilmore told Newsmax Saturday that he would not counsel President Donald Trump to drop the idea of a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine because it “really gives the Russians an advantage in any further meetings.”

But that’s not even the core problem, he added.

“The core problem is a report today in some news outlets that the president had agreed with [Russian] President [Vladimir] Putin that if he got all of the Donbas region — which means the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from their own land — then he would freeze the current borders that he’s conquered, which is an outrageous thing, an outrageous thing to suggest that he gets to keep what he’s already stolen,” Gilmore told Newsmax’s “Saturday Agenda.”

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